Bridges to make you cross.

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Following my lighthouse quiz of sad memory, I offer you twelve bridges that I have photographed mostly from the boat . There are some clues following if that's any help. Having sailed east from SE England will be a distinct advantage. Most are very easy and one or two are difficult. Sorry, I can't afford prizes.

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1 Has now flown to a museum.
2 Has a new companion since this photo.
3 A well-known obstruction to sailors.
4 Once the longest bridge in Europe, over 5km.
5 A cafe for ship-spotters and a bridge for those that wish to be transported.
6 The first of its type but blown up in '45. Now an engineering monument.
7 The 'Flying Drawbridge', named after a poet.
8 Here the day before its opening and a spate of murders.
9 Single track, sadly now replaced, to reach a rare reverse delta estuary.
10 Photographed at its 50th anniversary in 2015, known locally as the coathanger.
11 Not far from 6, site of a battle in 1628. Road and rail.
12 Designed by a Dutchman and built in 1887.
 
No 4 is the bridge between colijnsplaat & zeirikzee
No 8 looks a bit like the Dartford Bridge but i have never seen it from the water There is one similar that one can see on the way north heading up to Dordrecht but i cannot recall where. One does not actually go under it.
No 3 reminds me of the rail bridge at Dordrecht on the Oude Maas
5 Looks like the Tees transporter bridge viewed from the harbour masters office
1 looks like the Pegasus bridge but you said that you travelled eastwards so i cannot think of any other bridge that fits the bill especially with that big boxy bit on the counterbalance
 
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johnalison said:
The clue is in the clue.
There are no bridges between Zeiriksee and Colijnsplaat! but the Zeelandbrug is nearby.
I've never been to the Tees, wherever that is. Yes, Dordrecht.
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Zeiriksee and Colijnsplaat! are the nearest villages each end if you look at the maps. You go through the northern end to get to Zeirikzee if coming from Veere
& just to hep here is abetter picture
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Daydream believer said:
Zeiriksee and Colijnsplaat! are the nearest villages each end if you look at the maps. You go through the northern end to get to Zeirikzee if coming from Veere
& just to hep here is abetter picture
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I think it depends on what you mean by 'between'. I was taking it literally, as in you have to go under the bridge to pass from one to t'other but I now see that you could read it differently.
 
MoodySabre said:
3 is the rail bridge at Dordrecht
4. is the Zeelandbrug
9. Moerdikjbruggen (on Hollandsch diep)
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I wouldn't have included your 9 because I wouldn't have remembered how to spell it. No; you are maybe 600 miles wrong. It is my only really obscure one but an interesting place near some defunct WW2 submarine pens.
 
Tomahawk said:
No1 glided to a museum. ..
Pulled by a winged orsey?
You could say it was the first liberal amongst it's countrymen?
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I thought the same but it did not look right, then I realised that the picture is the new one, and the old one that I remember is now on shore leave, so I think you are right, and its on the Orne Canal.
 
No.3 has mixed memories for me. In the season, with the mast up, that is the only way to go in either direction. In the winter, mast down, we were heading south and from force of habit went through as usual. With the bridge down that is a north-going span, we were seen and boarded by the police and ultimately were fined €100.
 
Norman_E said:
I thought the same but it did not look right, then I realised that the picture is the new one, and the old one that I remember is now on shore leave, so I think you are right, and its on the Orne Canal.
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The old bridge wasn't replaced until 1994 and this picture was taken in the early-mid eighties.
 
Quite so, and here is the full list:
1 The old Pegasus bridge on the Caen canal. I didn't say that all the bridges were to the east.
2 The Rugen bridge at Stralsund, the new one much larger alongside.
3 Dordrecht bridge, from the church tower. The old bridge was always breaking down.
4 The Zeeland bridge. They didn't think to make it tall enough for yachts.
5 The transporter bridge at Rendsberg from the cafe where ship-watchers listen to a commentary and national anthems are played.
6 The old Karnin lifting-bridge, linking Usedom. Based on a similar boat-lift, I believe it was the first of its type, in 1933. It was made from rust-free steel.
7 A very distinctive road bridge just west of Leeuwarden, it opens at an angle.
8 'The Bridge' over the Oresund. Visible in the original are thousands of people watching a cycle race before its opening.
9 A bridge at Karsibor, now dualled. Here the Baltic sometimes flows back into the Swina and forms a reverse delta. It's a pleasant cycle ride from Swinoujscie.
10 It would have been too easy to include the whole of the Fehmarn bridge. There are some interesting proposals for a Fehmarn Belt crossing.
11 A pleasant town Wolgast, with an impressive road + rail bridge over the Peenestrom.
12 Greifswald Wiek.

And since you've all been so good, here is a bonus one, an odd sliding bridge seen here halfway.

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